BTS 방탄소년단 - Global Official Fanclub A.R.M.Y. 2017

 

As the finale to their "youth series," BTS released their first Korean compilation album The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: Young Forever in May 2016, which combined a number of songs from both The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 1 (2015) and The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 2 (2015) and included three new singles: the top 40 hit "Epilogue: Young Forever", the top 10 hit "Fire" (불타오르네; Bultaoreune), and the top 20 hit "Save Me". The album topped Gaon Weekly Chart in Korea for two consecutive weeks and peaked at number 107 on the U.S. Billboard 200. Korean music critic Kim Youngdae considered the compilation album to be a key breakthrough and one of the most important albums of BTS' career, able to achieve a balance between popular appeal while maintaining BTS' signature sound and raw youthful energy. The track "Epilogue: Young Forever," RM's first producing effort, was praised as a "masterpiece that condenses the essence and sentiment of all the themes of the youth series."The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: Young Forever later won BTS' first major Korean award for Album of the Year at the 8th Melon Music Awards. Following Korean music show appearances, BTS embarked on their Asia tour extension, 2016 BTS LIVE "The Most Beautiful Moment in Life on Stage: Epilogue", from May to August, visiting 10 cities and performing to 144,000 fans. During their tour, BTS held a landmark two-day concert at the Olympic Gymnastics Arena in Seoul in May, and the group performed as headliners for the first time at both U.S. KCON shows held that year in Newark (June) and Los Angeles (July), to sold out audiences.

In September 2016, BTS released their second Japanese studio album Youth, which included re-recorded Japanese versions of a number of songs from their "youth series" and Japanese editions of "I Need U" and "Run" as singles. The album sold over 44,000 copies on its first day of release and peaked at number one in Japan.

Back in their home country, BTS began pre-orders for their second Korean studio album, Wings, accumulating over 500,000 copies within the first week. Wings combined the themes of youth presented in the "youth series" with temptation and adversity and, for the first time as a major group effort, included seven solo tracks that demonstrated each members' potential and individuality as independent musicians. Released in October 2016, Wings was generally well-received by critics. Nick Murray of Rolling Stone named Wings one of the most conceptually and sonically ambitious pop albums of 2016, while Fuse praised the album's "vulnerable and honest song material" and diverse tracks. Commercially, BTS also hit new career heights. The lead single "Blood Sweat & Tears" achieved a chart "all-kill" in South Korea, becoming their first number one hit on the weekly Gaon Digital Chart. Its music video gained over 6 million views within 24 hours, breaking the previous record held on YouTube for the highest number of views of a K-pop group music video within 24 hours. At that time, Wings became the best-selling album in the Gaon Album Chart history in South Korea and marked the highest chart ranking ever for a K-pop album on the U.S. Billboard 200 at number 26. Wings sold more than 1.5 million copies that year, making it BTS' first "million seller". BTS also became the first Korean group to top the Billboard Social 50 chart that month. At the end of the year, BTS won Artist of the Year at the 18th Mnet Asian Music Awards, becoming the first artist not from a "Big Three" entertainment company (SM, YG and JYP) to do so.

2017: International expansion and collaborations

In February 2017, BTS released the repackaged edition of Wings (2016), entitled You Never Walk Alone. Pre-orders of the repackage reached over 700,000 copies, breaking the record for most albums sold in a month. The repackage included an additional four tracks that offered consolation and encouragement to its listeners. Its lead single, "Spring Day" (봄날 Bomnal) met critical praise as "an intelligent, compelling and elegantly restrained study of loss and longing" that "deliberately avoids cliché pomp and drama" by Dazed Digital. Embodying nostalgia and sorrow, it opened a new chapter in BTS' aesthetics and lyricism and attracted fans across generational boundaries. Upon release, "Spring Day" topped eight of the major South Korean online music charts, as well as Gaon, and crashed Melon's digital chart due to the high influx of user traffic. It also entered the U.S. Billboard's Bubbling Under Hot 100 singles chart at number 15 with "zero promotions." As evidence of its staying power, "Spring Day" is the longest-charting song on Melon by an idol group to date. "Spring Day" later won Best Song of the Year at the 9th Melon Music Awards

In conjunction with the release of You Never Walk Alone, BTS commenced their second world tour, 2017 BTS Live Trilogy Episode III: The Wings Tour, from February to December. The tour visited 12 countries including Brazil, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, and the United States and gathered 550,000 fans. On the tour, BTS began to play progressively larger venues, moving from halls into arenas and domes. Tickets for the North American leg sold out within minutes and two additional shows were added due to high demand, making BTS the first K-pop act to sell out arenas in the United States. After completing their North American leg, BTS attended the 24th Billboard Music Awards in May and won Top Social Artist, becoming the first Korean group awarded a Billboard Music Award.

 

 

 

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